Acting Quotes

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Acting is something I love.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.

Acting is a form of confusion.

You have to examine a scene on the page first. Then you get into the basics of acting: Who are you? Who are you talking to? How do you feel about that person?

I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.

I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.

Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.

My point is that, over the years, I've taught five thousand people acting and lately I have a lot of energy on these kids, having the same break I had as a high school girl.

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

That's what I like about acting. When you're preparing for a role, you do your research, and the bonus is you get to learn these skills. Now, it's on to whatever the next thing is I have to learn.

Well, I think one of the main things that you have to think about when acting in the movies is to try not to make the acting show.

Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.

I've got the best of all worlds. It's every actor's dream to wake up in New York City and go to an acting job rather than to a restaurant to wash dirty dishes. And I live so close to the studios that I ride my bike to work.

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands.

The failure of The Cable Guy impacted my career. I had to start writing and acting again.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

With acting, you wanna see if you can get into trouble without knowing how you're gonna get out of it. It's like the exact opposite of war, where you need an exit strategy. When you're acting, you should get all the way into trouble with no exit strategy, and have the cameras rolling.

Acting is always a challenge.

Acting is a craft, and you need to study to be an actor.

Acting isn't for me. I don't like being told what to do. I'm more interested in set design, more visually driven.

I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.

I moved here to California when I was 13 to pursue my acting career.

I always vaguely knew I wanted to perform, but I haven't got the greatest singing voice and my dancing isn't up to scratch. Acting was really the only alternative. My parents have been really supportive throughout.

Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.